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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all very interesting.

I'm worried about my kids being exposed to rich, entitled kids who have too much money and not enough supervision and get into all the things that may be associated with that (drugs, assuming a car will be provided at age 16, never having to take a crappy job to make some extra money as a teenager, etc.)?  I work with these kids in N. Arlington.  They're not all like this.  But a decent amout of them are.  These are not the peers I want for my future teenage children.

So which is better, poor kids who have behavior issues or rich kids that act like entitled a-holes and who think the rules don't apply to them and that mommy and daddy will buy their way out of every problem or make excuses for them at every turn?

And of course, this might not be YOUR kid or how you will raise YOUR kid.  But that's the peer group.

This isn't meant to be snarky.  This is what I'm currently struggling with as an Alexandria resident with preschool age kids who is pondering a move.[/quote]

Neither situation is perfect.  In Alexandria, it is just more in my face.  I've met some super sweet kids on the playground and some nice parents and grandparents.  I've also seen some pre-teens go up to a baby in a stroller, point, and then tell the mother "you have one ugly baby," and then run off laughing.  Trust me, no one is more annoyed that some kids in public housing are not raised right than the families in public housing that do it right are.
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